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EDITORIAL OPINION
Wednesday evening the Student Government Association (SGA)
took its boldest step toward student freedom, by passing a resolu
tion to limit and eliminate many of the W rules of the Senate Rules
and Policies, which deal with student discipline and civil law.
Thursday, at the Student Affairs meeting, the resolution was
tnet •by unbelievable "rightist" opposition. Such comments as—stu
dents should sign a document which states that they know and un
derstand the rules contained in the Senate Rules and Policies, be
fore they begin classes here—were tossed into the air. We hardly
feel that a student would sign such a document if he realized that
to do so would put him .in a form of "datible jeopardy." This is in
reerence to Rule W-i 1 which •allows a student to be processed
through civil law and then be susceptible to disciplinary action by
the University.
The unfairness of this system, can be exemplified by looking at
a case which came up last term. Students were picked up at a raid
by the Erie Police Dept. and turned over to the school. The police
raided the party because of underage drinking. When the students
were charged by the campus to answer in effect: "Are you guilty of
participating in a raid by the Erie Police Department?" By look
ing at this charge, you can see that there is no way that the stu
dents charged could deny them. However the charges could not men
tion underage drinking because that is a civil charge. The Univer
sity was handcuffed.
The only answer is to get the University's hands free from civil
law totally. The SGA is not letting their resolution die but, rather
is rcwritting it in more specific terms to give the narrow-minded
members of Student Affairs (not all of them) less room to misin
terpret plain English. Write letters of support to the SGA and the
CUB. RSK
Letters To The Editor
Dear Faculty and Students:
Your honest concern over the delayed passage of non-preferred
appropriations for our State - and State related colleges and univer
versities is fully justified. And, I might add, the interest and con
cern, that you as individuals have shown to members of the General
Assembly are vital in helping us break the revenue stalemate in
Harrisburg which has prevented the funding of non-preferted ap
propriations.
Rather than dwell on the political aspects of the current di
lemma, I prefer to answer you in terms of the differences in social
philosophy which underlie the problem because it is in the area
that. the changes being wrought by your generation are most in
fluential. Many legislators and, unfortunately, many citizens are
simply not willing to pay for progress; they would rather reduce
our".commitment not only to higher education but to social services
in general than to enact an adequate revenue program.
Those in government like myself who feel that we must move
for Ward to provide fair and ample opportunity for all citizens de
per•d, perhaps more than you realize, on the power and interest that
only those I think new vision can provide.
I thank you for your efforts to generate public pressure on the
question at hand and I tell you frankly that without pressure it is
unlikely that we shall ever reform our political system of build a
truly just society, competent to meet the overdue needs of yesterday,
thoSe of today, and the vast yet more challenging needs of tomor
row.
3.Kittanv . +21:117,6
MEMBER. OF . . .
Intercollegiate Press Bureau
Very truly yours,
K. Leroy Irvis (maj. leader)
RANDY S. E:CM]tAD
TERRY L. ROBINSON
THE NITTANY CUB
U. P. Coordinating Committee
Urges Letters of Discontent
Concetta Rizzo
It just isn't fair. There is a
University Park Coordinating
Committee going to Harrisburg
regularly to persuade legislators
on the appropriations funds to
this University.
No one from the Commonwealth
Campuses has been able to ex
press themselves in this way. So
the 14,000 students at the Com
monwealth Campuses are in no
way sharing in the discontent,
right? WRONG!
It just isn't fair that 14,000 stu
dents are in no way: sharing in
this discontent, but before you
pack your bags and march on our
.naughty • Capitol, consider the
more effective types of influence
with which you can direct your
moans, groans and hang-ups about
the State Legislature.
Many letters have been sent to
your parents by the coordinating
committee to inform them of a
Trustees Bug
Legislators!
University Park, Pa., Feb. 14—
The Board of Trustees of The
Pennsylvania State University td
day notified leaders of the State
Legislature that the financial posi
tion of the University "becomes
more untenable with each pass
ing day."
In a unanimous resolution pass
ed at the Board meeting Friday
night, the members stressed the
necessity for action, since "the
University is rapidly approaching
the limit of its borrowing cap
ability."
The full statement by the
Board follows:
"The Pennsylvania State 'Uni
versity has now entered the
eighth month of the 1969-
70 fiscal year without its annual
appropriation from the Common
wealth.
"The financial position of the
University becomes more unten
able with each passing day.
"Therefore, we, the members of
the Board of Trustees of The
Pennsylvania State University,
feel compelled at this time to ap
peal to you for expeditious ap
proval of our requested. funds.
"To date, the University has
been required to borrow $42.5
million since July simply to main
tain activities at their prior levels.
The interest cost on these borrow
ed funds has amounted to MO,'
000 in unanticipated expenie.
(Continued on Page 3)
Shafer Supports
Student Rat)
University Park (APS)--Gov.
Raymond P. Shafer supports the
concept of students serving as ad
visers to the University's Board
of Trustees. He indicated this
while talking with five Penn State
students who were in Harrisburg
to lobby in favor of the Univer
sity's budget request.
Shafer has taken steps to give
students a voice at 13 state-owned
institutions and Indiana Univer
sity by appointing one student ad
viser to each.
Penn State's Trustees tabled at
its last meeting a charter amend
ment which would have given
three student ex-officio seats on
the board.
possible tuition hike if they do not
write their legislators in a man
ner favoring appropriations funds
for the Pennsylvania state insti
tutions. Have you encouraged or
threatened your parents into
writing their legislator?
The petitions that the ,commit
tee has sent to your campus were
sent to each campus so that they
may express themselves as a whole
to the Legislature. Have they, or
some facsimile, been circulated?
(Make sure all petitions are sent
to: A.S.A. Office, Hetzel Union
Building, University Park, Pa
16802)
Still think you are not involved
BULLetin Bored
A Samothrace Club, sponsored by the Erie Business and Pro
fessional Women, is being organized at Behrend. The purpose of
the club is to serve as a liaison between the campus-and the com
munity, and to provide college women with the opportunity to meet
professional women of the area.
Any woman student interested in this organization should con
tact Carlene Novosel, 110 Niagara Hall, chairman in charge of or
ganization, or Dean Seanor, the group's advisor, for further infor
mation,
A tea will be held during the spring term for all third term
women who have at least a 2.5 average. From these, approximately
ten per cent will be selected for membership in CWENS, a nation
al society for sophomores dedicated to the purpose of promoting
leadership, scholarship, and fellowship among women.
_ Any woman selected for membership at Behrend will automat
ically be a member at University Park or any of the Commonwealth.
Campuses should she transfer.
Selection, based on satisfactory scholarship, leadership, and
involvement in campus life, will be made by a group of sophomore
women who probably would have been members if the society had
been established at Behrend..last year. The sophomores, chosen by '
Dean Seanor, advisor to CWENS, will be offered honorary member
ship in the society.
Charlie Brown: I don't have one single person I can call a friend.
Lucy: Define 'friend.'
Snoopy: A friend is someone who will share his time with you
Schroeder: A friend is someone who likes the same music you like.
Linus: A friend is someone who sticks up for you when you're not
there.
What's your definition of a friend? Come to the Behrend Read
ers program on March. 5, 1970, at 8:00 p.m., and see what their
definition of a friend is. Reed Lecture Room. No admission.
Athletic Night, sponsored' by the Bible Fellowship, will be held
in Erie Hall tomorrow - at 7:30 p.m. Planned activities include bask-.
etball, volleyball, and possibly •badminton. A movie, Sign Posts Aloft,
will follow.
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in all the Big Discussions? GOOD!
Now do some of the things that
a few of the Commonwealth
Campnses have initiated. Make
use of public service programming
in your area and inform the pop
ulace surrounding your Campus on
the appropriations problem. Set
up a table in your Union Building
to inform the uninformed, misin
formed, apathetic, or pathetic stu
dents on the urgency of showing
disapproval to Harrisburg.
Don't sit back and let one small
, delegation in Harrisburg do all the
complaining. Let the Legislators'
ears ring from all nineteen cor
ners of the Commonwealth.
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ATHLETIC NIGHT
February 20, 19'70